Sky Sports F1 commentator Martin Brundle has weighed in on the ongoing feud between 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell.

It was an explosive Thursday at the F1 Abu Dhabi Gr♏and Prix as Verstappen and Russell spoke to the media ahead of theꦓ final race of the season.

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Verstappen didn’t back down from his comments on Sunday in Qatar where he said he had “lost all respect” for Rཧussel🅷l due to the alleged role the Mercedes driver played in getting him a grid penalty following qualifying last weekend.

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Russell hit back at Verstappen with a series of comments where he questioned how the reigning world champion deals with adversity, while making reference to 2021 and how 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:he would have handled a title defeat if he was in 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton’s position.

Things continued to be explosive when Verstappen spoke to the Dutch press as he described 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:R💝ussell as a “backstabber” and “loser”.

Speaking ahead of FP1 in Abu Dhabi, Brundle sees it as Verstappen “ramping up the aggressio𒆙n” on track while “playing the victim”෴ off it.

“How I see this is that Max has ramped up the aggression on the track and ramped up playing the victim off the track - and it's working,” Brundle said. 

“He's got everyone on the run, he's got everyone on edge, whether it's media, whether it's other teams, particularly oth🉐er drivers, and it's how he goes about his racing.

“We know he's always been aggressive on the race track and I think he's seen 'I can basically say what I want and get away with what I want'. He knows the rulebook, he knows how to control his car - he's brilliant at contro✱lling his car in wheel-to-wheel situations - and every time he does it, it plays out for him.

‘Russell the only one brave enough’

Russell was liꦡvid with Verstappܫen’s comments after the Dutchman questioned his integrity.

The Briton insisted though he just wanted to stand up for himself rather than escala༺te the situation🎶 with Verstappen.

Brundle acknowledged that Russell ⛦is the first driver to be “brave enough” to hit back at Verstappen.

“George is the on𝔉ly one brave enough to do it with Max at the moment,” Brundle added. “Everybody else has🌳 withered.

“The FIA should be getting involved in this and sorting🐷 it out if💎 they weren’t busy trying to sort themselves out. I do believe there should be more involvement.

“I’ve said for years I don’t understand how drivers can be best mates, social media lovies and race wheel to wheel on tra𓄧ck. It can’t work out.”